Sifiya Surname
Approximately 18 people bear this surname
Sifiya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 11 | 1:16,103,887 | 259,204 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
Sifiya (234) may also be a first name.
Sifiya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sifiya Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sifiya (Hindi: सीफिया) is found most frequently in Nigeria. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Sifiya.
How Common Is The Last Name Sifiya? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 4,649,889th most common last name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 404,863,662 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 72 percent of Sifiya are found; 61 percent are found in West Africa and 61 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 585,759th most frequently used first name globally It is held by 234 people.
The last name Sifiya is most frequently held in Nigeria, where it is held by 11 people, or 1 in 16,103,887. In Nigeria it is primarily concentrated in: Zamfara, where 91 percent reside and Sokoto, where 9 percent reside. Barring Nigeria this surname occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in India, where 28 percent reside and The DR Congo, where 6 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sifiya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sifiya in the Hindi language | ||
| सीफिया | siphiya | 50 |
| सीफीया | siphiya | 21.43 |
| सिफिया | siphiya | 21.43 |
| सूफिया | suphiya | 7.14 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sifiya
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